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Quick French question
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:09 pm
by alice
How many French words end in <q>, aside from "coq", "cinq", and various names like "Busbecq"?
Re: Quick French question
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:27 pm
by Neon Fox
https://www.wordmine.info/Search?slang= ... in&sword=Q
It says there are 120, but at a glance a number of them are proper names.
Re: Quick French question
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:30 pm
by Estav
As far as I know, it's just those. This
book from 1815 says only those two words end in Q.
Re: Quick French question
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:44 pm
by Vijay
Interesting how that list includes e.g.
vingt-cinq and
trente-cinq yet omits both
cinquante-cinq and
quatre-vingt-cinq.
Re: Quick French question
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 11:44 pm
by circeus
Everything else aside from coq and cinq seems to be a borrowing (e.g. nasdaq, tamacheq, nunaviumiuq). Romestecq is an old card game (18th or 19th century), but the etymology of the "stecq" part is obscure.